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Monday, June 27, 2011

Tables on Wheels

Above photo: Gae Aluenti's Tavolo con Ruote Table

I get a kick out of tables on wheels---possibly because I've rearranged my furniture so often and like the idea of making pieces more mobile? I like the industrial look of casters as well. I have a collection of images of tables, mostly coffee table height, on wheels in my design files and wanted to post a few. I plan to transform an old door (with a big hole in it) that came out of the back room remodel into a mobile coffee table when I locate the appropriate casters.

An aside: The Italian architect, lighting, interior and industrial designer, Gae Aluenti created a few tables on wheels of her own. More about this prolific designer here.

Above: This one looks like an Ikea Lack table top, on casters.

Above: Directly inspired by Gae Aluenti's Tavolo con Ruote Table?

Above: Display case table on wheels?

Above: Fruit crates with a glass topper?

Above: OK, this is not really a table, but more of a daybed made from pallets and casters.

Above: More of the pallet-like aesthetic

Above: Kind of a butcher block look with a well-turned wheel

Above: A glass topper and a storage shelf below

Above: A nice big surface useful for all the occupants of the seating (though the table needs to creep up a little closer)

Above: Stacked drawers on wheels as a bedside table?

Above: A plain old chest refreshed into an industo-chest with the addition of big casters and knotted rope for drawer pulls.

Above: Small-ish table, BIG wheels

Above: Another pallet-type table painted and used on the patio

Above: Another version of a set of bedside drawers on wheels

Above: This table makes use of "legs" (bolting on 4x4's) to raise the height before adding the casters.

Above: I'm pretty sure this is an Ikea hack making use of a shelf unit, adding casters and a cushion on top for a mobile storage bench.

Above photo: Gae-Aluenti-Tour-Table

And here we are back to a Gae Aluenti piece---more of a tea table height making use of bicycle wheels!

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"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts." Herman Melville, In Mazatlan, March 28 - April 16, 1844, Sociedad Historica Mazatleca, Mexico